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Study aim
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Evaluate effect of short term oral magnesium prophylaxis on prevention, frequency, intensity, prolongation, amount of analgesic drugs and resulting palliation In Menstrually Related Migraine (MRM) headache attacks.
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Design
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In this blinded, randomized, concealed clinical trial with a parallel group design patients examine for 3 continuous months in magnesium users and placebo users subgroups.
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Settings and conduct
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Each qualified patient fill out questionnaire about her MRM headache attacks features in 1 month without any magnesium or placebo usage initially, then a third person divides participants into magnesium and placebo groups randomly (random allocation rule) and also he is the only person who has access to patient's personal information, then he gives out tablets according to each person's group and after passing 3 months he collect questionnaires and records data and reports them anonymously to researcher and analyzer.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Women of reproductive age who have regular menses and affected by Menstrually Migraine, meet the last International Classification of Headache Disorders's (ICHD) criteria for MRM and doesn't fill the exclusion criteria that was named.
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Intervention groups
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Half of the qualified patients use 375 milligrams oral magnesium (magnesium oxide tablets) and the other half also use placebo tablets which are exactly the same size, smell and color, for 3 continuous Menstrual cycles from fifteenth day of each cycle to the third day of next one.
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Main outcome variables
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group (magnesium and placebo), age, menstrual cycle length, headache frequency, intensity, prolongation, amount of analgesic drugs and resulting palliation, side effects